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SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human

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SAPIENS

What makes you … you? And who tells what stories and why? In the SAPIENS podcast, listeners will hear a range of human stories: from the origins of the chili pepper to how prosecutors decide someone is a criminal to stolen skulls from Iceland. Join SAPIENS on our latest journey to explore what it means to be human.

#92

Protest and the Public University

Members of an encampment at a public university in New York City are on trial for felony c... more

03 Jun 2025

30 MINS

30:16

03 Jun 2025

#91

The Purification of Gold—and the Racialization of Miners

The gold industry, alongside nation-states, has marginalized the artisanal and small-scale... more

27 May 2025

34 MINS

34:57

27 May 2025

#90

Milpa for the Future

Milpa is an ancestral way of farming in Mexico and other regions of Mesoamerica that invol... more

20 May 2025

25 MINS

25:17

20 May 2025

#89

Zambia’s Chinese Connection

In the last two decades, an unprecedented wave of Chinese investment and migration to Afri... more

13 May 2025

29 MINS

29:54

13 May 2025

#88

South Africa’s Road Out of Colonialism

While researching the history of parole in South Africa, a lawyer and anthropologist disco... more

06 May 2025

29 MINS

29:00

06 May 2025

#87

Ceasefire From the Earth and Sky

In existence for more than 70 years, the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is the site of th... more

29 Apr 2025

33 MINS

33:36

29 Apr 2025

#86

A Venezuelan Election … in Chile

In this episode, social anthropologist Luis Alfredo Briceño González talks about his exper... more

22 Apr 2025

32 MINS

32:00

22 Apr 2025

#85

Hunting, Gathering, and the Fluidity of Gender Roles

When it comes to the division of labor in hunter-gather societies, the stereotype is gener... more

15 Apr 2025

38 MINS

38:12

15 Apr 2025

#84

A Linguist’s Night at the Ball

Since its emergence in 1960s Harlem, the LGBTQ+ “ [ballroom scene] (https://www.theatlanti... more

08 Apr 2025

38 MINS

38:31

08 Apr 2025

#83

Cementing the Past

The United Fruit Company was a U.S. multinational corporation and at one time, the largest... more

01 Apr 2025

34 MINS

34:25

01 Apr 2025

#82

Where Cultures Collide: Season 8 Trailer

Culture is a force that makes us who we are. It drives social interactions and relationshi... more

25 Mar 2025

01 MINS

01:23

25 Mar 2025

#81

Introducing: Homegoings

Host Myra Flynn unpacks one soul food recipe: collard greens, with local and world-renowne... more

03 Oct 2024

35 MINS

35:41

03 Oct 2024

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